Psychology & Neuroscience - Undergraduate Areas of Study

The La Sierra Advantage

When you study Psychology or Neuroscience at La Sierra University, you will:

Learn from Professors who have worked in the field and care about your academic growth.
Our graduates are highly competitive for admission to graduate school and post-bachelor’s positions where psychology is the preferred undergraduate degree.
Several courses include hands-on lab experience.
More than 100 of our students have already been inducted into the La Sierra chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology students.
All of the full-time faculty members have earned their doctoral degrees, and two are licensed clinical psychologists.

Why Study Psychology?

What makes people act the way they do? How do brain function and behavior go together? How do we react to our environment and how do we shape it? Psychologists pursue answers to these questions using careful observation, experiments, and analysis. What they discover helps those who practice psychology work more effectively with their clients and patients. Psychology is a varied field leading to career opportunities in health services, business, education, research and more. Many of our graduates go to medical or dental school, or they take a graduate program in counseling or clinical psychology.

Why Study Neuroscience?

Students who study neuroscience analyze the brain, the nervous system, and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember. The knowledge of neuroscience has been pivotal to new treatments for cardiovascular disease, stroke, parasitic diseases, and several other illnesses. It has also advanced knowledge about psychiatric and neurological disorders and is helping to improve the lives of people in the developed world as well as in third-world countries. La Sierra's program offers students opportunities to pursue cutting-edge research, leading to careers in one of the fastest-growing fields in psychology.

Programs Offered

Majors

Program in Social Ecology

Minors

Neuroscience31 Units
Psychology30 Units
Health Psychology28 Units

Related areas and programs

Social WorkB.S.W.
SociologyB.A.

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Psychology Undergraduate Programs

Psychology Bachelor of Arts

The Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology provides a rigorous foundation based on both the science and application of psychology. The department is also large enough to allow students to tailor their program to their own interests. This way, students are able to choose emphases in personality, abnormal psychology, forensic, political, health, or sports psychology, learning, development, counseling, and many other aspects of the field. Students earning a bachelor’s degree from La Sierra will be trained to think like psychologists. They will demonstrate the empirical habits, mastery of knowledge, and practical research skills that will make them competitive applicants for top graduate programs and jobs requiring strong analytical, information literacy, and communication skills.

Program Details

Undergraduate Research

The Psychology Department believes deeply in the importance of undergraduate research and its curriculum fosters the development of empirical skills. In addition, interested students are encouraged to become actively involved in independent faculty-mentored research projects.

Psychology Honors

The Psychology Department Honors is designed for highly-qualified students who wish to further their research experience in psychology. Students who complete the program must be members of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology; graduate with a 3.5 GPA; do an original research project under the supervision of the Psychology Department faculty, and present their research in a public forum approved by the department faculty.

The one thing I appreciate the most of the La Sierra University Psychology Department is the close relationships we the students had with our professors. At a big University some classes may have 300 students and are taught by graduate students, but here at La Sierra University I’ve never had a class with more than 40 students and all were taught by our professors. The professors make it their number one priority to communicate with the students and let us know that we are always welcomed in their offices. I feel like the professors really care about us and our future.